The 4th Social Watch General Assembly takes of today, Monday 26, 2009 with a Coordinating Committee Meeting. The General Assembly sessions start tomorrow Tuesday, October 27 to 29 at the M-Plaza Hotel at. On Thursday, October 29, at 4 pm, there will be a public event at the International Press Centre.

The various workshops will be centred around the following topics:

*Financing for development

*gender

*Climate and environmental issues

*Analysis of anti-poverty programmes

*concept of social development

*Human resource approach to poverty

*Human Resource Budget analysis and Social indicators.

All programmes begin at 9.00am and end at 5.30 pm except for the last day Thursday, which ends at 2.30pm to make way for the public event at the Press Centre at 4pm.

The opening session will be addressed by His Excellency the Vice President.